Developing prospects into NHL-caliber players is not an easy task by any stretch of the imagination. It can take countless hours, days, years of work to make it happen. It’s a major area that the Montreal Canadiens have struggled with in recent seasons, with a limited number of their AHL prospects sticking in the NHL for more than one season.
Their best AHL prospect in the Bergevin tenure has been Brendan Gallagher, though he played less than a full season for the Hamilton Bulldogs in the first season of the GM’s tenure, and therefore his story didn’t do much to change the impression of the organizational development.